The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

I love high-performance technologies, the stuff that's the brains of today's products, and AMD was one of the few companies that had this type of technology. I always believed that it was a company that had great technical capability but needed better business focus.

Every company that comes into the office for appropriations, the first thing I ask is how many jobs are you going to bring to the 5th District that are not already there.